Fox has released a new San Diego Comic-Con trailer for their upcoming Rocky Horror Picture Show event, and it celebrates the audience participation that made it a cult-classic.
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When The Rocky Horror Picture Show was first released in August 1975, it bombed at the box office and was destined to become an afterthought, but then something curious happened. In 1976, during midnight showings at Waverly Theatre in New York, audiences began entertaining themselves by interacting with the film, shouting lines at the screen and using props during certain scenes, such as newspapers, water guns, and rice. That fan participation added a lot of charm to the film and is the key reason it became one of the ultimate cult films of all time.
A reimagining of the original movie, the two-hour event follows sweethearts JANET (Victoria Justice, “Victorious”) and BRAD (Ryan McCartan, “Liv & Maddie,” “Heathers the Musical”), who stumble upon DR. FRANK-N-FURTER’s (Emmy Award-nominated actress Laverne Cox, “Orange is the New Black”) bizarre abode. Frank-N-Furter, a sexually ambiguous, flirtatious mad-scientist, is holding an annual Transylvanian science convention to showcase the birth of ROCKY HORROR – a muscle-bound specimen created solely to fulfill Frank’s desires. Actor and singer Staz Nair (“Game of Thrones”) will star in the role. Also featured in the event are AMERICAN IDOL alum Adam Lambert as EDDIE, Reeve Carney (“Penny Dreadful,” “Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark”) as RIFF RAFF, Tony Award winner Annaleigh Ashford (“Sylvia,” “You Can’t Take It With You,” “Masters of Sex”) as COLUMBIA, Christina Milian (“Grandfathered”) as MAGENTA, Ivy Levan as USHERETTE, Tony Award winner Ben Vereen (“Pippin”) as DR. EVERETT SCOTT and Emmy Award nominee Tim Curry, the original Frank-N-Furter, as the show’s CRIMINOLOGIST NARRATOR. Celebrating 40 years of theatrical distribution – longer than any other film in history – “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” is one of the most popular films of all time, and still plays in movie theaters around the world.
The two-hour Rocky Horror Picture Show event will air this Halloween.
